In a move to its users the freedom to send money whenever they want and how they want, this remittance firm, which has been operating in Nigeria for the last five years, and launched remittance to Kenya in 2014, has raised $20m Series C to simplify sending money to Ghana, ...
MTN Côte d'Ivoire has announced a strategic partnership with SUMMVIEW that will enable the launch of a new service called "MTN TV" accessible on mobile offering its users the ability to access from their smartphones and tablets, to a set of live TV channels as well as on-demand content. Users ...
Vérone Mankou, the Congolese entrepreneur behind the first tablet designed in Africa has launched its first VMK store in Abidjan Ivory Coast yesterday. The shop is located in the Treichville commune at Zone 3 C, Immeuble Rive Gauche and will exclusively sell products from the VMK range. This is the ...
As part of its CSR campaign, Jumia Ivory Coast has offered 1,000 school kits to primary school pupils in Yopougon Kouté in a ceremony attended by members of the National Ministry for Education and Technical Education. “Today is our chance to give something back to society and to make ...
French-owned mobile telecoms operator Orange has partnered with Emmaüs International to launch the fifth mobile collection facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. To mark the event, Orange said that 10 tonnes of mobile waste loaded in a container would leave Abidjan for recycling in France. The first of these dismantling and ...
In recent years, intra-African trade has been on the increase. In the period between 2005 and 2012, intra-African trade (excluding informal cross border trade) increased from US$62 billion to US$147 billion - an increase of more than 100% that accounted for 12% of overall African trade. In terms of global ...
Online food ordering and delivery platform Hellofood has today revamped its website in a move targeting tens of thousands of customers per day. Launched 8 months ago and backed by Berlin's Rocket Internet, a global business builder, Hellofood newly activated site and dramatically improved user interface was designed to withstand ...
SkyVision Global Networks Ltd, a leading global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and fiber optic systems has installed private satellite network solution for 97 branches of UNACOOPEC-CI (National Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives). UNACOOPEC is Côte d’Ivoire largest financial institution specializing in microfinance, banking, and insurance. SkyVision’s solution ...
Aggreko, provider of temporary power and temperature control services, has said it will expand its power project in Ivory Coast from 100 MW to 200 MW. The extension of the power plant was officially inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, His Excellency, Daniel Kablan Duncan, during a ceremony ...
